What if we could estimate a shark’s age from a small blood sample rather than counting growth rings in its vertebrae? New ...

They are tiny, termite-like insects that spend much of their lives hidden beneath bark or inside decaying wood. Yet angel ...

Language network brain fMRI research confirms the brain's dedicated language circuit is identifiable from any scan, regardless of task -- enabling language mapping for stroke and aphasia patients who ...

A technique that manipulates the video game's random number generator makes rare Pokemón appear, showing how it's not so ...

Many people think of negotiation as something reserved for salary talks, car purchases, or business deals: infrequent, high-stake encounters most people would rather avoid. A new study shows that this ...

The findings documented here are interesting and valuable with respect to revealing genetic players that may underlie AD. However, there are concerns related to the analysis pipeline and the basic ...

A patent-pending method developed and tested for multiple applications at Purdue University eliminates sample preparation, a ...

This important study identifies and characterizes a set of amino acid states that can rescue protein function in the presence of substantially deleterious mutations. Some of these super-compensatory ...

Teaching methods are the broader techniques used to help students achieve learning outcomes, while activities are the different ways of implementing these methods. Teaching methods help students: ...

National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week. With decades of reporting from battlefields ...

Coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever) is a growing public health concern in the western U.S., with California reporting more than an eightfold rise in cases over the past two decades. As climate change, ...

A configurable bioengineered multitissue platform with vascular circulation enables investigation of human breast cancer ...